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Morning Mist Ferry · Saturday, 22 November 2025 · Ahhhh!
November 2025
Saturday,
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Order of magical channellers in 'The Wheel of Time' (3, 5)
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Global org with a lot of blue helmets (2)
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Finnish company that launched some very angry birds at unlucky green pigs (5)
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Deliver a long, lofty speech like a politician who’s lost track of the clock (5)
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Email field for people who should know, but don’t really need to talk (2)
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Document that legally translates to 'you saw nothing, you say nothing', for short (3)
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Midwestern state that calls itself 'the heart of it all' (4)
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Prefix meaning 'far', as in talking across oceans without leaving your sofa (4)
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Boxy vehicle that turns family road trips into rolling group projects (3)
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Button on a calculator for the natural logarithm of x (2)
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What 'soon' sometimes secretly means when your friend is always late (2, 1, 5)
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Calendar label that politely replaced 'AD', for short (2)
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Modern block cipher that keeps your passwords from parading around in plain text, for short (3)
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It calls soldiers, and when paired with 'free' makes airport shops slightly less painful (4)
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_____ Lavigne (5)
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That math constant dessert (3)
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Business-school bedtime stories packed with charts, dilemmas and discussion questions (4, 7)
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Abbr. for 'enfant' you might see on a French form for a child (3)
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School class where you do push-ups, or a stock’s price-to-earnings ratio, briefly (2)
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__ Krishna, widely credited for Bangalore's IT infra push during his tenure as Chief Minister of Karnataka (2)
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In the past, occurring simultaneously in a single moment (2, 3, 4)
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Trait; gets genuinely excited about math problems and sci‑fi marathons (5)
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Director of the upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey starring Matt Damon as Odysseus (5)
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Frigid body of water Santa might sail across if he parked the sleigh (6, 5)
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Geologic epoch when mammals started to really take over the party (6)
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Tech-heavy region south of San Francisco, for short (2)
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Smooth, wiggly curve you meet in trigonometry and synthesizer displays (4, 4)
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Office-speak for 'by tonight' (3)
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The first and the fourth vowel, that's it, that's the clue (2)
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Pressed flat before a job interview (6)
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Electricity, water and internet; what are these? (9)
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Gas that city nights glow (4)
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Sound of sudden understanding (2)
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What you 'pay' to your grandparents when you stop by for tea (1, 5)
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__ (2x) Land; won many oscars but the Best Picture was Moonlight (2)
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Actor who portrayed Michael Corleone (2)
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Pennsylvania town chocolate company (7)
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Indian instant-payment system that lets you scan a QR code and be done in seconds (3)
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Office chorus who always nod enthusiastically at the boss’s every idea (3, 3)
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Topic switcher that often precedes 'me' or 'you' in conversation (2, 3)
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Werewolf professor teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts (5)
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Money that goes into the pot before the cards even show their faces (4)
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Short trial of a game or product, or a protest taking over the streets (4)
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Two-letter code for the US state whose capital is Bismarck (2)
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__ Dorado (2)